plus, a new breaking developments on the redacted mar-a-lago affidavit, with the intelligence community announced earlier today, and the white house calls out republicans who attacked student loan forgiveness, after having their own loans forgiven. the irony, i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. mohyeldin t started. mohyeldi let s begin with some breaking news, just hours ago. a federal judge in florida appointed by donald trump, we should note, issued a preliminary ruling on trump s request to obtain a special master for the darkness that were seized with by the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the judge says that she plans to apply the special master, but no actions have been taken just yet. a hearing in the case has been scheduled for this coming week on thursday. that would be september the 1st. we will have more coverage of this breaking news in just a moment. but we do want to talk about politics here to start out. democrats just flip 2022 on its head. possibly crushing
attorney trump is not exactly or it s unclear how that will help him. it undercuts the need for the special master, for sure. david, the pages that the affidavit, a good deal of it was redacted. we are expecting that, no surprise there. but from the parts that were not redacted, key words or phrases were struck by, when you read it? i think that there were multiple human sources who have talked to, apparently, or talk to the department as, and told them that there are more documents at then one president trump s 15 boxes finally did a national archive, there is not true. and then again, classified material, the 25, the dynamic , it is unforced error from donald trump.
did go to a foreign country, that s a critical part in the decision by merrick garland whether or not to prosecute trump. it s a document the defense for trump would be hey, the documents side in the basement for 18 months. i was a sloppy disorganized guy. a jury might sort of buy that. but if he can show that there was real harm, that a key human source for american intelligence, some special method of eavesdropping was exposed to a foreign power, like russia or china, that creates a much stronger criminal case. and we don t know yet, we will see what happens with this review. but again, just politically, this is clearly hurting donald trump. scary thought if that did in fact happen. but we will see how all that plays out. anne david rohde, asha rangappa, thank you so much, i greatly appreciate you joining us this evening with all your insights. up next, president biden s big announcement on student loan cancellation and how the white house responded to republican critics.
beyond new. joining me now to discuss this and more, asha rangappa, senior lecturer and assistant dean at the jackson school of global affairs and former special agent and a counter intelligence agent of the fbi and david rohde, executive editor for news.com, also msnbc contributor. it is good to have you both with us. asha, i d like to start with you. your reaction to this break-in special master news out of florida, some expected, but should we be reading too much into that? yeah, i think there might be a little too early to read into this. the order states that in scheduling this hearing, and should not be taken as a final determination on granting a special master. my sense is that the judge wants to offer the trump lawyers, who have really been a quite broad ranging and confusing and some incoherent legal request, but to get the
contained classified information that may not have been properly classified, things that may have been mutilated to try to conceal the fact that they were classified, and then they will basically have to bring in all the entities that are called equities. these intelligence whatever these documents were came from different sources, different types of intelligence, which means that the came from different agencies. it could be the nsa, the cia, it could be the national reconnaissance office with images, for example. and they have to come and see what the second and third order ramifications would be if this had been if there had been unauthorized access. and i think to some degree, they have to operate on and absorption that there could ve been unauthorized access and see what type of proactive measures they need to take to protect methods, to protect sources, and what it could implicate on everything else that we have operating in the intelligence community. david, this might b